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    1. a Wacom Inkling pen with conductive ink, so you can share your circuit designs easily

      Conductive ink allows you to draw curcuits, and the Wacom Inkling automatically digitizes your drawings in realtime. Together, you could create vector circuit drawing that would be dead easy to share.

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      • Pantry Porn: a gallery for people to show off their kitchen pantries

        Stocking a pantry takes time and hard work. I for one want to show off sometimes.

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        • app that keeps track of your pantry stock based on what you cook

          Use the app to keep track of the meals you cook; based on your description the app guesses how much ingredients you've used and reminds you when you need more.

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          • Realtime map of US Drone Strikes

            I have no idea how many/how often, but I think it'd be alarming and educational to see it laid out.

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            • a repository of Monster/LinkedIn resumes as JSON hashes

              would be useful for recruiting firms and job placement agencies.

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              • a planting optimization tool for gardeners and small farms

                Solve for one variable: season, geography, output (food or aesthetic), etc

                FACETS

                Timing
                - Grow time
                - Time of year
                - Geography/climate
                Weather

                Planting
                Greenhouse to transplant
                - start date to end date in greenhouse
                - or plant directly, less space but less risk
                - garden to garden
                - timing
                - space
                - soil (rich vs lean, wet vs dry, nutrients)
                - categorical prohibatives (carrots)
                - proximity to other plants
                - composting
                - perennial vs annual

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                Start backwards
                Adjust mid season

                Timing - climate, weather, grow time, geography, hemisphere (NOAA API?)
                Space - light

                Select for ideal plants

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                • Cardsquare - "checkin to cash out"

                  When you're at a bar, checkin to start your tab and when you leave a geofencing radius your account gets charged.

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                  • Git for cooks' recipes

                    Version control for cooks so they can individually or collectively tweak or add to recipes.

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                    • communications management tool for caregiver's of hospital patients

                      Create autoresponders to phone calls, SMS and emails that point to a central forum for health status updates and well-wisher's comments.

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                      • "bring my pet in or not"

                        Remote screening tool for vets where pet owners submit photos and symptoms, and get a response as to whether they should bring in their animal.

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                        • Github gist feed

                          So you can see what people you follow are pasting in Github.

                          You can:
                          - create a gist feed for code reference
                          - show gists by keyword, language, or follower
                          - enable replies and favoriting

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                          • digital bill splitter

                            when you pay for lunch, take a picture of the check with your phone and use OCR + manual tagging to charge your friends.

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                            • an NOAA weather alert app that doesn't suck

                              It should:
                              Detect location
                              Select specific alerts or high/med/low
                              kickass UI

                              as opposed to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-alert-usa/id314502416?mt=8 whose UI is awful.

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